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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: charles godwell <charles_goswell@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:25:00 +0100 (BST)
Subject: APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE



Hello,
From :charles amaco, Address;lot 268 Rue de Bingerville Cocody Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire West Africa.
APPEAL FOR URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE. My Dear one, Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I am charles Amaco the only SON of late Mr. and Mrs.Joseph Amaco. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan , the economic capital of Ivory coast, my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip . My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father on october 2002 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Fiften million,five hundred thousand United State Dollars. USD ($15,500,000.00) left in fixed / suspense account in one of the Security Company here in Dakar Senegal,that he used my name as his only SON for the next of Kin in depositing of the fund. He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business
associates. That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management . Dear, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways: (1) To provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to,waiting to hear from you,
best regard's
Charles amaco,


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